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New for You! Christian Education or Public School?
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Submitted by: Nannette | View Member Profile | View Other Posts
Created: 2/26/2003
A member who found her mate on our website writes: "We are now facing the choice of putting my children from my previous marriage into the church school or leaving them in public school. I guess I just want to see what other people have to say about this. From talking with my husband and his family they seem to think the church school would be better. I think that the kids may need the extra Christian influence, but I am also torn between the idea of them being too sheltered from the real world. I know many church schooled kids that have gone wild once they did get a taste of the real world and I guess I want my kids to have a balance somewhere. I am thinking maybe public school might be best for them with a strong Christian teaching in the home to back up their educatuion. Any idea's or suggestions?"
Female - Age Range: 21-30
I have been exposed to both. My father has been a public school teacher for 24 years and I worked as a teacher assistant some time ago. I can tell you on a personal level that my son is being home schooled (unless a good Christian School comes to my town). The politics in the public school system is frightening. The fact that the state controls what our children learn is horrifying. Your child will never be taught creationism in PS nor will they be free to disclose their beliefs because that is now unconstitutional. Should your child need to be held back, the teacher no longer has this power…it too is unconstitutional and discriminatory.
I was forced into the PS system because my dad was a PS teacher. I grew up in a Christian home from birth, but once I hit 16 I rebelled and I rebelled HARD! I didn’t lead a sheltered life in the least but yet that rebellion kicked in. 8 friends I grew up with were all home schooled during their elementary years. Once they were high school age the parents gave them the choice to go on to high school or to be home schooled…1 chose to continue home schooling the rest high school. 6 of the 7 kids went on to place in the top 5% of our class. They excelled and because of the strong values taught to them through their elementary age, they held fast to their morals and values. Only 1 of the girls had problems. She became uncontrollable and is still having serious problems today. She was our pastor’s daughter so I tend to think her issues run a lot deeper than just being sheltered.
I think those numbers speak volumes as to what type of setting is better for a child!
Nannette:
Female - Age Range: 41-50
You may use my alias. We are homeschooling our children this year as we both work at home and our kids are self-motivated (maybe the little one is more motivated about recess than anything else ;), but it has been wonderful having them home. We love to be with our kids and have them around.
However, if I were to choose between a Christian school and a public school, I would choose the Christian school. I was raised in public school and was taught things about evolution. On my science test in 3rd grade it asked how old something was. I wrote on the test 'The textbook says 70 million years, but the Bible says the earth is only around 6,000 years old.' The teacher didn't mark it wrong, but it was confusing to me and it certainly is nice seeing my children learning from Christian textbooks that teach Creation.
I know Christian schools are not perfect, because I can see the kids doing things of which I don't approve. But I believe my children would have more of a chance with these teachers and students than with public school teachers teaching them philosophies of which I would not approve, and likely wouldn't be aware. And I don't expect that there will be knifings and drug pushing and some organization coming in and handing condoms out to my kids and telling them have sex but make it safe. At least at a Christian school they would learn what I want them to learn overall.
Up until last week, I thought it was okay to send my children to a public university – by that time they're old enough to make their own decisions for right and wrong – I rationalized. 'Cost of a Christian college is just too high, and the education isn't going to be as good as a public university,' I would say.
However, after reading the March 2003 issue of Reader's Digest, the 'That's Outrageous Porn 101' article, I have changed my mind. And I don't care the cost, I will send my children to a Christian college. This article tells how various universities are teaching courses on Pornography. Students' final exams consist of making their own porno film of themselves or having a class orgy. Students go to a gay bar and watch their instructor having sex on stage. Female students are taken to strip joints, where they're encouraged to get drunk and strip on stage. Courses teach students how to find pornography on the internet. The article explains more graphically the horrible things that are 'taught' in such courses. If you can, please take the time to read it.
I wonder how many parents realize they are paying money for their children to take such a course. I am shocked and appalled by this and feel that these teachers are nothing more than sexual predators after the souls of our children. I can't believe that universities have included and sanctioned such courses. Years ago, these 'teachers' would have been fired, now they're encouraged. I can no longer consider sending my children to a school that would have any such faculty on their staff, even if my child did not take that course. I can't imagine sending my children to a campus shared by students taking such a course. No way. My children will go to a Christian college (or homeschool internet college). But not a public college. Larry and I have worked too hard to raise our children in the way they should go, without having them lost because we wanted to save money on their education.
And if such instructors are found on college campuses, what's to say they are not found in public elementary, middle schools, and high schools? The risk is too great to take with our children's salvation.
Female - Age Range: 41-50
I would ask “How serious are you about your Christian faith ?” Do you want you kids to be sort of half hearted about whether they should serve Jesus or not? I could write a book on this topic but it seems most church people are just that, church people. Jesus is real but that doesn’t mean that we can just live our lives however we want and he will “make everything all right”. Deut. 6:7 And thou shalt teach the DILIGENTLY unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest be the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. Hmmm, maybe that Bible doesn’t really mean what it says. Let’s water it down a little bit. This couldn’t really mean that parents are supposed to teach their ‘own’ children… not in our modern world. Things are different now than they were back then. Shall we pick some other nice ‘Christian’ people to do it for us(They might even answer to God for a job well done or not), or maybe we should just get someone who is ‘qualified’ by a system that more and more refuses to honor God or his right to have authority over our lives It really comes down to how serious you are about your faith in Jesus, because if you are, your kids won’t be happy because they will have to lead “double lives”, one at home, one at school, when they would rather be home with you, where the presence and influence of a loving Godly mother and/or father is always present. The Bible says nowhere that children need to be placed in schools, like fish.
JncTchr:
Female - Age Range: 51-60
You may use my alias.
I have been a teacher in small church schools for the past 30 years. I have been a teacher and principal for the past 13 of those years, so have experience with hundreds of students and their families. It has been my observation that children who have the most trouble in dealing with the real world are those whose homes are rigid, legalistic, and not balanced with a healthy dose of reality--whether or not they attend church school.
I share with my students the everyday experiences that I have with Jesus Christ. I relate academic learning to the Creator. When a fellow student was killed in a car accident, I was free to point my children to Jesus Christ as the hope life again. I couldn't do these things in a public school.
At the same time, it is important that we teach our children to be 'thinkers, and not mere reflectors' of the thoughts of others, whether they attend public or church school.
I have spent thousands of dollars educating my 3 children in christian schools. They've all received their college degrees in christian colleges and have been well prepared to face the work world. I would do it again, in a heartbeat!
Faithfullboy:
Male - Age Range: 31-40
Faithfullboy. You may use my alias.
'But of the tree of the knowledge of GOOD and EVIL, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.' (Genesis 2:17)
If you have the possibility to put them in christian schools do so. Those kids have gone wild after tasting the ''real world'' most surely were tasting it in many SUBTLE ways before getting wild:
Whatch for their toys, friends conversations and practices, TV, computers, the innocent book of the Adventures of Tom Sawyer given by an ancle you don't want to defraud, watch for their ''christian teachers'', for 'ourselves', etc, etc. We are living difficult times!
The Bible is always right Proverbs 22:6 But if you think the kids need that extra Christian influence consider Eve when tempted: Genesis 3:4-5 The extra Christian influence will always present itself like in here and kids are more vulnerable than Eve was, the result will be verse 6.
In public schools they will need much more effort to be controled by their parents to be more men in understanding and children in malice. Instead, they tend to become controlers of their parents, children in understanding and premature men in malice. Deformed physically, mentally and morally.
We have also eaten from the tree of the knowledge of GOOD and EVIL but after getting the knowledge of the Sinless One we have killed, yearn for that all-useful childish innocence.
SnglDad:
Male - Age Range: 31-40
you may use my alias
The response to this question is a real concern. I can only speak from my experiances. I was schooled in the public school sytems till I was in 7th grade. My parents divorced when I was in 6th grade and my Dad moved away. My mother found out about the local Christian school from some church members at our church. Even though she struggled to do it my mother put me in the Christian school for the rest of my education. From just an educational standpoint the class sizes in Christian schools tend to be smaller so the teacher to student ratio is much better. The fact that the teachers can share their own testimonies with the kids and pray with them and for them was very nice too. We learned things from a Christian perspective and I honestly feel I recieved a better education then I could have from the public schools. As for the Christian school kids going 'wild' it doesn't just happen to the kids from the school it happens in the church as well if you look around you. I think personally I was more grounded in my faith by attending the Christian school than anything. The kids will be in the 'real' world soon enough and believe me school is not the only place they learn the lessons of the real world. If they are a little sheltered would that be a bad thing? I would send my children to a Christian school in a heart beat if I could afford it. Unfortuantely it is not with in my power right now. Seek Gods wisdom on this and I am sure you won't go wrong. God bless you.
Ringmaster:
Male - Age Range: 31-40
You may use my Alias.
Well, well, well. My two children each attend one of each. My son attends Christian school and my daughter attends public. My son's 'Christian' school shows less respect for my (and therefore his) religious beliefs than my daughter's public school, and is more liberal than public school in terms of what it expects from its students.To their credit, the public school will call me and ask if what they are planning to do or teach is appropriate for my daughter. My daughter's public school has a more strict dress code. Why don't I pull my son out? Because he has friends and performs well, but this is probably his last year there. But that does not change my opinion. In my thinking, we have been given direct instruction as to how to conduct Christian education. As enrollment continues to drop at my son's school, the leadership holds fast to the belief that the way to improve enrollment is to let the kids run the school. What used to be rules are now 'guidelines and suggestions'.They have fund raisers that sell things we don't believe anyone should use. Why should a parent pay his hard earned cash to send a child to a school that is more worldly,liberal and less respectful than public school?
My loyalty is to God first and the church second, Won't you join me in making your voice heard and demanding that Christian schools teach like they believe the message?
Male - Age Range: 41-50
i believe that we should not have to pay twice for education once to the public schools and again for christan schooling many of our elected officals put their children in private schools as they want quality education for their children so does the christan
i thought the boston tea party was because of taxation without representation being taxed harshley as the christan is today
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